[BRIEFING.COM] The S&P 500 (+0.7%), Nasdaq Composite (+0.2%), and DJIA (+1.3%) trade in a relatively tight range as the market enters the final hour of the session.
The information technology (-0.4%), energy (-0.6%), and utilities (-0.5%) sectors remain below their flatlines, while the other eight S&P 500 sectors hold gains of 1.0% or wider.
Within the technology sector, Dell (DELL 126.19, -1.03, -0.81%) trades just modestly lower ahead of its earnings report after the close. The company's earnings stand as a test of sentiment of the AI trade, which looks to Dell as the "infrastructure backbone" of on-prem and enterprise AI build-outs.